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Globalisation and the international governance of modern biotechnology: development of IPR regime in India with reference to agricultural biotechnology
Institute of Development Studies UK, 2003This paper looks at debates over the evolution of the IPRs regime in India as it relates to agricultural biotechnology.DocumentRural development, institutional change and livelihoods in the Eastern Cape, South Africa: a case study of Mdudwa Village
Environment Team, IDS Sussex, 2003This paper looks at the case of Mdudwa village in the Eastern Cape to explore the processes and impacts of democratic decentralisation.DocumentRights and risk: challenging biotechnology policy in Zimbabwe
Environment Team, IDS Sussex, 2003This paper looks at how a rights based approach can be applied to biotechnology policy. Drawing on the experience of Zimbabwe and other countries in southern Africa, this paper argues that a risk based approach to biotechnology regulation creates an artificial divide between civil and political rights and economic, social and cultural rights.DocumentContexts for regulation: GMOs in Zimbabwe
Environment Team, IDS Sussex, 2003This paper looks at the regulation of biotechnology in Zimbabwe.DocumentSeeds in a globalised world: agricultural biotechnology in Zimbabwe
Environment Team, IDS Sussex, 2003This paper looks at what biotechnology might mean for agricultural and food production systems in Zimbabwe and looks at some of the strategic questions that lie behind decisions to go the GM route in agriculture.Several factors are identified and discussed including:technology choiceissues of technology access and ownershipthe role of new farmers emerging as a result of land refDocumentCrossing boundaries to reduce malnutrition? An institutional study of agriculture and nutrition in Uganda, Mozambique and Nigeria
Agriculture-Nutrition Advantage Project, 2003This study examines how agriculturalists and nutritionists in Uganda, Mozambique, and Nigeria might work more closely together to reduce malnutrition, hunger, and poverty.The study concludes that the two professional communities are missing important opportunities to collaborate that would have a positive impact on people’s nutritional well being.DocumentBiotechnology policy and regulation in China
Institute of Development Studies UK, 2003This paper refutes claims that China has in recent years fundamentally altered its stance on GMOs in response to trade, food safety and environmental biosafety concerns.DocumentThe effect of WTO and FTAA on agriculture and the rural sector in Latin America
International Food Policy Research Institute, 2004This paper examines two alternative versions of further trade liberalisation; one representing free trade world wide, the World Trade Organization (WTO), and the other a Western hemisphere free trade bloc, Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA).DocumentThe emergence and spreading of an improved traditional soil and water conservation practice in Burkina Faso
International Food Policy Research Institute, 2004This paper examines the advantages, disadvantages and impacts of improved traditional planting pits (zaï) in Burkina Faso from the early 1980s.The zaï emerged in a context of recurrent droughts and frequent harvest failures, which triggered farmers to start improving this local practice.DocumentThe role of agricultural technology in food and nutritional security in Africa
Bioline, 2001This paper looks at some of the reasons for low productivity in African agriculture. It argues for increased investment in agricultural research and extension.The paper presents the argument that the development and utilization of profitable and environmentally friendly technology is an essential factor for the transformation of agriculture into a modern sector.Pages
